On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:40:07 -0500, George Shirley
> wrote:

>Victor Sack wrote:

snippage

>>
>> Years ago, some horse meat products could be found for a very short time
>> at one of the Costco-like establishments here. I once bought some
>> Bratwürste there, which just happened to be some of the best I have ever
>> had, before or since. I have also eaten smoked salame-like sausages
>> ostensibly prepared according to a Russian recipe, which I purchased at
>> one of the branches of the local Russian supermarket chain (which is not
>> really Russian, as most products are actually produced in Germany or
>> imported from Poland and some other East-European countries).
>>
>> Victor
>As late as the mid-t0-late fifties horsemeat was a commonplace staple in
>the diets of US servicemen. I don't know when they stopped it but
>probably about the time the movie "Flicka" came out.
>
>George

DH says he used to buy horsemeat at a little butcher shop in San Diego
in the 50's

koko
There is no love more sincere than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw